Monday Morning

We had 16 members at Monday’s Annual Club meeting and Elections.  Bonnie Baerwald announced that the Children’s Museum is looking for a couple of volunteers to help with waterproofing the Garden Shed about 1:00PM to however long it takes to complete the waterproofing project on Sunday, May 18th at the Children’s Museum on Scott Street.  Let Bonnie know if you can help.   Bonnie also announced a Wild Goose Trail Clean Up on Saturday, May 10th.  Check out the details under Kiwanis Happenings.  A “Happy Buck” was offered by Gary Ring for finding out that Grandma Lois will have a grandson later this year. They found out at a “Reveal Party” this past weekend in Chicago.  Pete Vercouteren was the 50/50 Raffle winner and he drew the seven of Clubs, not a winner.  Next week’s 50/50 Raffle drawing will have 24 cards with five pay cards and a pot of at least $378.

Annual Club Meeting

Monday was our Club’s Annual Meeting and Election of Officers and Directors for the administrative year that begins on October 1, 2014. The Club Satellite members voted on Thursday, April 17th and the Host Club voted on Monday. The results of both votes were combined and the results are shown below. Congrats to all and thanks to everyone that agreed to run for an Office or Director seat.

Dan Leeds, Gary Ring and Pete Vercouteren then did a short program on how to think about increasing our Club’s membership, be it at the Host level or the Satellite level. Three questions were posed to the members:

• Why do we come on Monday morning?
• What’s our Club’s impact on the Community?
• How do we do what we do successfully that positively impacts our Community?

A discussion was held on how we use the answers to these questions as we think about who we can ask if they’d like to be members of our Club.

2014-2015 Kiwanis of Fabulous Fond du Lac Club Officers and Directors: 

President – Charlene Pettit

President-Elect – Gary Miller

Vice President – Dave Twohig

Treasurer – Chris Serres

Directors (incoming) – Dan Leeds, Jan Krug, Gary Ring

Mondau Morning
We had a great turnout at Monday’s Annual Meeting with 22 members. “Happy Bucks” were offered by Del Waldschmidt for a Brewer win on Sunday and Jan Krug for her husband’s birthday, although Del had to put the $1 in. Pete Vercouteren reported that the three local Kiwanis Clubs are designating the Food For Freedom Drive as our Kiwanis One Project. They’ll be looking for volunteer supervisors for four hour shifts and volunteer fork lift operators for two hour shifts. More details to follow. Marlin noted that the FDL Fire Department is sponsoring a Brat Fry on Friday, April 26th to benefit the local Red Cross Chapter. The Brat Fry will be at the South Main Street station if you’re interested. Dave Lefeber was the 50/50 Raffle winner and he drew the Six of Clubs, still not a winner. The next raffle drawing on April 29th will have 26 cards, eight pay cards and a pot of at least $343.

Annual Meeting
Marlin Towne, President, called the Annual Meeting of the Kiwanis of Fabulous Fond du Lac to order. The first order of business was the election of Officers and Directors for the 2013-14 Administrative Year. There were no nominations from the floor so the published slate of Officers and Directors were voted on by the membership. The results of that vote were sealed until the Club Satellite votes on the same slate at their Thursday meeting. The second order of business was the adoption of the revised bylaws for our Club to bring us into compliance with Kiwanis International’s recently released model by-laws. Copies of the revised by-laws were sent to the membership two weeks in advance of the Annual Meeting. After a brief presentation and discussion the proposed by-laws were approved by a unanimous vote. A request was brought to the membership to use the Club’s grill assets for two non-profit group’s fundraisers. After a brief discussion it was approved to allow the use of the two charcoal grills that are no longer used by the Club. The grills will need to be picked up and returned to our storage location by the groups using them with their own trailers.